A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"